To the Man I Married by Angela Manalang-Gloria
Still can’t find my book. Who knew copying poems by hand would be useful someday?
To the Man I Married
Angela Manalang-GloriaI
You are my earth and all the earth implies:
The gravity that ballasts me in space,
The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries
For food and shelter against devouring days.
You are the earth whose orbit marks my way
And sets my north and south, my east and west,
You are the final, elemented clay
The driven heart must turn to for its rest.If in your arms that hold me now so near
I lift my keening thoughts to Helicon
As trees long rooted to the earth uprear
Their quickening leaves and flowers to the sun,
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
Need you no less because I need the sky!II
I can not love you with a love
That outcompares the boundless sea,
For that were false, as no such love
And no such ocean can ever be.But I can love you with a love
As finite as the wave that dies
And dying holds from crest to crest
The blue of everlasting skies.
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Updated 27 July 2012. Thanks, V.
i’ll be reporting this tomorrow :D
the author of this poem is clearly,absolutely and amazing in love with her husband..I can’t believed that such honest and dedicated love exist …perhaps she was sad and lonely while writing this poem because of the sudden death of her husband…… but over all comment on the poem, the poem is amazingly done,the words that were used were all purely exaggeration about love,,,,,……for the people who believed in true love this poem is for you guys……… literally speaking its nicely done…hands of to you girl… :D
Great poem. Though, this isn’t a complete copy of the poem.
shocks i,ll be reporting on this poem tomorrow…….
what is the theme of this selection ” to the man I married”?
I have always been in love with this poem. I remember my college days with this poem.
:) lovely